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2026 African Energy Week (AEW)

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The 2026 African Energy Week (AEW) will be held from 12-16 October 2026 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, South Africa.

SLB will showcase digital technologies, including those developed locally by our experts, across numerous themes, including:

  • Exploration and Development
  • Production and Recovery
  • Industrial Decarbonization
  • Digital and Al
  • Renewable Energy Technologies
Date Time
Monday, 12 October 10:00-17:00
Tuesday, 13 October 09:00-18:00
Wednesday, 14 October 09:00-18:00
Thursday, 15 October 09:00-18:00

All times are in SAST.

SLB strategic conference participants

Date Time Speaker Location Topic
Tuesday, 13th October 13:55 – 14:40 Jean-Marc Kloss
Managing Director, West Africa		 Rhino Stage | Ballroom West The Energy Leaders Dialogue
Tuesday, 13th October 14:15 – 15:15 Miguel Baptista
Managing Director, Central, East & Southern Africa		 Elephant Stage | Ballroom East Investing in Angola’s Offshore Future: Scale, Stability and New Capital
Tuesday, 13th October 12:45 – 14:00 Amanda Fagnou
Digital VP - Europe and Africa		 Buffalo Stage | Hall 1.4 Panel Discussion: Data, Power, and Policy: Securing Africa’s Place in the Global Tech Economy
Wednesday, 14th October 10:35 – 11:45 Nosa Omorodion
Country Director, Nigeria		 Elephant Stage | Ballroom East Invest in Nigeria: Increasing Production, Offshore Exploration and the Revitalisation of Idle wells
Thursday, 15th October 09:00 – 10:00 Olivia Djibo
Country Manager, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mauritania		 Elephant Stage | Ballroom East Invest in the MSGBC Basin: Scaling Gas, LNG and Regional Infrastructure Across West Africa 
Thursday, 15th October 10:30 – 11:30 Miguel Baptista
Managing Director, Central, East & Southern Africa		 Elephant Stage | Ballroom East Invest in Mozambique: Unleashing Africa’s Premier Gas and Upstream Exploration Frontier

SLB strategic technical session participants

Date Time Speaker Location Topic
Tuesday, 13th October 15:10 – 16:20 Ike Mokogwu
Research Scientist – Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery		 Innovation Hub | Technical Hub Stage 2 Arresting Decline & Adding Reserves: Overcoming the challenges of production decline and recovery efficiency with Chemical Solutions
Wednesday, 14th October 14:35 – 14:50 Paul Freeman
Global Exploration Advisor		 Innovation Hub | Technical Hub Stage 2 (Renegade Intel Hub) Reducing Uncertainty Across the Exploration Value Chain: Illuminating the Subsurface with Advanced Seismic Technologies

SLB Solutions

Featured solutions at 2026 Africa Energy Week

Accelerated Time to Market

Access more mature field reserves and bring green fields online faster and with longer sustainable performance.

Carbon Capture and Storage

Propel your project with a full value chain of technology solutions.

Geothermal

Geothermal energy is a sustainable energy source with unique advantages in the energy transition and for meeting the electricity demands of the future.

Methane and Flaring Elimination

Remove methane and flaring emissions from your operations. For good.

Emissions Reduction

Reduce operational emissions and environmental impact with quantifiably proven, reliable technologies.

Data and AI Platform

Unify data, governance, analytics, and AI to improve decision-making and accelerate digital transformation across operations.
SLB Products

Featured products at 2026 Africa Energy Week

Digital wellbore in reservoir.

TruLink

Definitive dynamic survey-while-drilling service
Achieve real-time, high-definition wellbore architecture—from tophole to TD.
DrillOps

DrillOps

Intelligent well delivery and insights solutions
Intelligent well delivery and insights solutions
OptiSite

OptiSite

Facility, equipment and pipeline solutions
Embrace a new level of integration and insight for proactive, ‘big picture’ asset performance improvements.
Lumi data and AI platform

Lumi data and AI platform

Scale AI across your operations.
Create trusted data foundations, connect workflows, and deploy AI solutions at scale across subsurface, drilling, production, and enterprise operations.
3D representation of an Intelligent Stimulation work site.

Intelligent Well Stimulation

Maximize production with actionable subsurface insights to guide drilling, fracturing, and lateral stimulation
Prevent production setbacks and boost recovery with proactive, reservoir-focused stimulation solutions.
Person in blue coveralls, hard hat, and yellow gloves checking tablet standing in between large tanks

Methane Emissions Management

Eliminate your methane emissions with a comprehensive plan for the future and a partnership to get you there.
Interior of an SLB production chemicals laboratory.

ChampionX production chemicals and services

Maximize production from reservoir to refinery
Improve and assure production more safely with chemistry technologies, software, and mechanical solutions.
SLB Brand art - abstract blue bubbles

Flaring Reduction

Reducing your footprint with innovative technologies—all function, no flare.
Sunset over reservoir testing equipment and people

Reservoir Characterization

The better you understand your reservoir, the better positioned you are to optimize its lifetime performance.
Understand your reservoir rocks and fluids through accurate measurements.
well construction

Well Construction

Extended Reach, Horizontal, High DLS, LWD/MWD
Faster ROP & better well placement in extended-reach, horizontal, unconventional, pad, high-dogleg, and other challenging oil and gas well schemes. 
SLB Brand Art Render of offshore reservoirs

Completions

Optimize your well-to-reservoir connection.
Maximize recovery with technology to access, manage, stimulate, and monitor production.
Living the Production Journey graphic: Configure, Select, Deliver, Produce

Production

Collaboration to achieve oil and gas development and mature field redevelopment production performance goals
Select optimal development scenarios, configure the development option, and produce at the lowest cost and carbon per barrel.
Abstract 3D art portraying well Intervention.

Well Intervention

Extending the life of producing wells
Improve your production performance and access to stranded or additional hydrocarbon reserves.
Photo of man and woman in blue coveralls working on abandonment tools in a manufacturing facility (Tier 1_ManufacturingFacility_Sugar Land_AML_5251)

Plug and Abandonment

SLB plug and abandonment solutions help meet your obligations to seal uneconomic wells and guard against potential liabilities for the long term.
Protect the profitability of your production operations and retire wells with peace of mind.
Integrated production solutions

World-leading project integration

From field to facility, production to CCUS
Proven efficiency, reliability, and performance you can count on every step of the way.
Geothermal consulting.

Geothermal Energy

Resilient, reliable, sustainable—and ready to be tapped
A wide range of geothermal solutions, from geothermal power to heating and cooling for buildings.
Energy storage

Energy Storage

Choose reliable solutions for accessing power.
Discover stationary storage solutions to access power when you need it.
Hydrogen SLB brand art abstract render of the inside of hydrogen tank

Hydrogen

Unlock the potential of low-carbon hydrogen.
Making hydrogen an energy carrier of choice to enable the global energy transition.
SLB brand art depicting sustainable lithium production

Lithium

Meet the lithium demand responsibly.
Powering the electrification boom with virtually no footprint.
3D CGI image of white and blue spheres on a white background (SLB_Carbon_Capture_04)

Carbon Capture, Utilization & Sequestration

We have the tech, talent, and experience to take on your biggest carbon challenges—all in one place
Combining subsurface and surface expertise and technologies for an end-to-end partnership you can count on.
DrillPlan

DrillPlan

Coherent well planning solution
Collaborative cloud-native well planning software that connects drilling and subsurface data with essential/critical well engineering workflows, enabling teams to create validated programs faster.
Subsurface Characterization

Digital subsurface

Our digital solutions for subsurface give you more time to focus on real geosciences, testing and validating multiple scenarios.
Accelerate interpretation, reservoir understanding, and field development planning with connected subsurface workflows and AI-enabled insights.
Asset Planning

Planning

Accelerate decision making and improve value at every stage of development.
Improve collaboration, evaluate scenarios faster, and make more confident development and operational decisions.
Well Construction

Digital Drilling

Transform your well construction experience with cloud and edge solutions.
Improve drilling performance by connecting planning, execution, automation, and real-time operational intelligence in a single environment.
3D illustration of digital production

Digital Production

Digitalize your production operations and start your automation journey.
Optimize production systems, improve asset performance, and increase operational efficiency through connected production workflows.
Data Solutions

Data Solutions

See the whole asset as one to make plans and decisions better and faster by digitally transforming your domain workflows.
Create a trusted operational data foundation that connects workflows, improves visibility, and supports AI-powered decision-making.
Blue hero texture

Artificial Intelligence

Empower your business to meet its greatest challenges with our scalable AI solutions
Drive innovation, better decision making, and automation across your global enterprise with AI.

Sustainability and Carbon Management

Digital technology and services for the shift towards a cleaner and more sustainable energy future
Digital technology and services for the shift towards a cleaner and more sustainable energy future
Empowering the edge.

Edge AI and IoT

Welcome to the next era of intelligent operations – from edge to autonomous operations
Welcome to the next era of intelligent operations – from edge to autonomous operations.
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